Dictators are remembered as larger-than-life political and military rulers.
From teachers to artists, here's what 13 despots did before they came to power.
Editor's Note: The original list included Jozef Tiso, a leading politician of the Slovak People's Party. We removed him from the list.
Italy's Benito Mussolini first worked as schoolmaster, and then turned to political journalism.
He left Italy for Switzerland where he worked odd jobs until he became well-known as an intellectual political journalist.
Benito Mussolini “for a time worked as a schoolmaster but soon realized that he was totally unsuited for such work,” according to Encyclopedia Britannica.
He then left Italy for Switzerland where he worked odd jobs until he became well-known as an intellectual political journalist.
North Korea's Kim Il-Sung was a major in the Soviet army during World War II.
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